This photo shows a colorized scanning electron microscope image of a phonograph needle in the groove of a vinyl record. The texture inscribed along the walls of the spiral groove replicates the soundwaves as they were recorded.

Colorized AND photoshopped to the extreme, sorry to say. NO stylus/cantilever glue-joint looks ANYTHING like that. Nor does any stylus — a smooth untextured cone? Nothing common with a real stylus except the general shape.

Still it makes one wonder, how can it possibly work — yet it does, magnificently.